Gah! My sincere apologies for the lateness of this update, I also wish I
had a reasonable explanation for it but I don't ( again so, so sorry but
that's job-hunting for ya. Again thanks to all who reviewed.
~Avalon
Disclaimer: I own diddlysquat.
Chapter 3: Loyalty
Janet Frasier was running tests on Andy long into the night when she fell asleep on the infirmary bed no one bothered to wake her to take her to her room. Samantha Carter had paced the floor of the infirmary for hours while the tests had been taking place unwilling to leave Andy's side. After 3 hours of pacing the cold floors staring at the dull gray walls Sam could have told you every detail of that hall, Frasier finally told Sam to leave and get some sleep. However Sam couldn't sleep and went to her lab. She stared at her books and papers she then stared to shuffle them around looking for something that she hadn't thought about for many months. After 20 min of looking she found what she was looking for: a picture. She looked at it, Andy stood next to her father smiling, Mark was beaming with pride, she had just won first place in a fencing tournament. Mark had given this picture to their father Jacob when they finally patched things together unable to take the picture with him off planet Jacob had given it to her for safekeeping. She was looking at the picture when Hammond walked in. Sam looked up but didn't say anything.
"I know this must be hard"
"Sir" She cut him off "I never talked to Mark for years, we finally work things out and then I loose him.it wouldn't be so bad if I knew he was alive or dead.but not knowing makes this worse. Is he alive, dead, in pain.I have no answers and now there may be something wrong with Andy."
"Major I know the feeling I always wondered about the men that were taken captive during the war, but you can't do anything about your brother now. Your niece on the other hand is a different story, there is still time to save her." Sam looked up in shock "Something leaked.they know she's here in this base."
"Andy."
"Listen if Dr. Frasier will give her a clean bill of health I'll send her off planet before they get here."
"But then they'll know we sent her, the SGC"
This time Hammond cut her off "They don't know about the Stargate yet. We have to keep it that way Major. Go to the infirmary and get Andy I'll send for the rest of SG-1"
"Sir." Hammond left her lab, leaving her to fetch Andy. She looked down at the picture again. "I'll get her away safely I promise you that Mark." She put it down and walked towards the infirmary. She never even got there; she was waiting for the elevator when she ran into a rather upset looking Janet and a rather nervous looking Andy. "Janet Andy? I was just coming to get you."
"We need to see the General right away."
"Why? What's going on?" Janet refused to meet her eyes "Janet?"
"It's better to explain when we see the General."
Sam turned to Andy "Andy?"
She shrugged her shoulder "I dunno she hasn't told me a thing."
"Alright Janet Andy let's go."
By the time the three of them had reached the room the General had already gather O'Neill, Dr. Jackson and Teal'c.
"Dr. Frasier?"
"Sirs when I was running tests on Andromeda I ran into some rather unusual things I ran some more follow up tests just to make sure." By this time everyone had been seated except the doctor as she called the results up on the screen. " This" She pointed at one of the images "Is a normal human brain and this" she pointed at the second "is Andromeda's. As you can see she is using over 55% of her brain. And this one" She pointed at yet another image "was taken last night it shows her using over 70%. Along with a high concentration of an unknown substance."
"What does that mean Dr. Frasier?" Hammond asked
"It means Sir that she is using more and more of her brain which means that these abilities will keep increasing, and as for what if anything that substance is doing I'm not sure."
"Is there any danger to Andy?" Sam asked glancing to her right, to Andy.
"Major I think that there is more important things like the danger to this command."
O'Neill looked up "Sir?"
"Our informants have told us that Andromeda Carters presence has been leaked out and that people who have no knowledge of the Stargate are heading towards this base as we speak and the last thing we need is an outbreak of some unknown origin."
"Sir the Asguard would never intentionally hurt anyone I don't think there is any danger to this base, but there is to Andy" General Hammond stopped Carter from continuing what would be a long-winded speech.
"Major!" Hammond placed his hands upon the wood table. "Now the team they sent to get her has no knowledge of the Stargate and we are going to keep it that way they will have limited access to the base, but Miss Carter here is the problem. We need to get her off the base and that is not an option now. Her father has stated that if she is captured he will speak of the SGC and without knowing if he is dead or alive" Andy hung her head and became very interested in the floor under the table. "I cannot risk that. So Dr. if you will give your permission I will send Andromeda Carter along with SG- 1 off planet."
"I can't any reason to keep her here sir."
"Good it's settled then."
"Ah Sir." O'Neill put his finger in the air calling attention to himself "How did Mark find out about the Stargate in the first place?"
Hammond and everyone turned to look at Sam. She sighed she didn't want to go into this now but it looked like she was running out of options "He knew because I knew."
"What?" O'Neill looked at Sam with that 'in plain English and as few words as possible' look. "Well sir like Andy here my brother also posses certain talents"
"Such as?" Jack pushed.
"Well he could move objects and read minds."
Jack looked at Andy "Have you been ah reading our minds since you got here?" Everyone now looked at Andy. Her head shot up as Jack spoke those words to her.
"No!" She said rather harshly, being rather defensive. Everyone was rather taken aback, she rarely said much and when she did it was always quite. She soon realized how she had said it she backtracked "What I mean is I can't. My father was a telepath and telekinetic. I on the other hand am a telekinetic and posses precognitive abilities."
Jackson who had been paying with a pen tired to looked as if he knew what she was talking about. O'Neill blinked, turned to Daniel and plainly said, "Do not pretend you understood that."
"Well I did get understand some of it." He replied letting the pen drop onto the table with a dull thud.
O'Neill just shook his head. Leaned over and his head in his hand.
"Ah.what I mean is that my father could move things with his mind and read peoples mind. I can move things and give you one or two possible versions of a future, how it turns out of course is completely up to everyone else. I have no mind reading abilities what so ever."
"Thank you." He sat up
"Alright people we need a safe off world planet ASAP."
"What about the land of the light?" Teal'c asked
"Well that would be a safe place to keep her until they team leaves." Carter agreed
"Alright then SG-1 you have a go. Dr. Frasier I would like you to accompany them just in case something happens to miss Carter."
Dr. Frasier nodded "sir."
"You leave in 1 hour dismissed." O'Neill, Frasier, and Carter all stood up as the general left.
Andy spoke up after the general left "Is it safe?"
Everyone looked at her confused "Is what safe?" inquired Jack.
"Going off planet? Me going with you?"
Sam spoke up "Of course it is. Why do you even need to ask?"
"Well." Andy looked out the window at the Stargate, the source of all her problems. "I know I brought this on you.I could.I could leave."
"No." The voice was not raised but quiet and firm that left no room for objection. Everyone looked at Jack O'Neill.
O'Neill had been listening to Andy. She reminded him of his son that he had lost Charlie. It was not like him and Charlie of course; it was between aunt and niece. Carter and her niece were close and family, and Andy was about to leave most likely to death if she ran or didn't do as the government bade her. No, in the short time that he had known her they had become friends despite the age gap. "No" was all he found himself saying it was only when the others started to look at him one by one that he realized he had spoken aloud and needed to continue. "You can't go there is more at stake than the SGC."
"I'm only one person Col." She looked back down at the floor.
"One person that we won't let the government take. And it's O'Neill or Jack. "
"O'Neill is right Andy Carter. If you should be taken prisoner then the SGC and the Asguard would be compromised. And we know nothing of how your health is going to progress."
"See." Jack said.
"Listen" Sam sat down and turned to Andy "I promised my brother that I would look after you, and I will but not only for that promise but because you're my niece and I love you. Please come with us."
"Do I have a choice?"
"Not really." O'Neill said. Everyone turned to him with the 'your not helping' look. "What?" He asked with feigned innocence.
"Alright."
"Good. Now lets go find you something that you can wear off planet." They all stood up and before Andy left she looked once again out the window down at the gate room and the Stargate. /I'm leaving earth.I'm leaving dad.dad.please be safe while I'm gone.I'll come back for you I promise. /
I'm so sorry this is a short chapter! I'll try to update more often, but now that I've found a job I have to go to it.I'll do my best though that's a promise. Please Review and tell me what you think, how I can improve, if there's a certain way you want the story to go or if ya wanna see any romance between any characters. Anything and everything is helpful to me. ~Avalon
~Avalon
Disclaimer: I own diddlysquat.
Chapter 3: Loyalty
Janet Frasier was running tests on Andy long into the night when she fell asleep on the infirmary bed no one bothered to wake her to take her to her room. Samantha Carter had paced the floor of the infirmary for hours while the tests had been taking place unwilling to leave Andy's side. After 3 hours of pacing the cold floors staring at the dull gray walls Sam could have told you every detail of that hall, Frasier finally told Sam to leave and get some sleep. However Sam couldn't sleep and went to her lab. She stared at her books and papers she then stared to shuffle them around looking for something that she hadn't thought about for many months. After 20 min of looking she found what she was looking for: a picture. She looked at it, Andy stood next to her father smiling, Mark was beaming with pride, she had just won first place in a fencing tournament. Mark had given this picture to their father Jacob when they finally patched things together unable to take the picture with him off planet Jacob had given it to her for safekeeping. She was looking at the picture when Hammond walked in. Sam looked up but didn't say anything.
"I know this must be hard"
"Sir" She cut him off "I never talked to Mark for years, we finally work things out and then I loose him.it wouldn't be so bad if I knew he was alive or dead.but not knowing makes this worse. Is he alive, dead, in pain.I have no answers and now there may be something wrong with Andy."
"Major I know the feeling I always wondered about the men that were taken captive during the war, but you can't do anything about your brother now. Your niece on the other hand is a different story, there is still time to save her." Sam looked up in shock "Something leaked.they know she's here in this base."
"Andy."
"Listen if Dr. Frasier will give her a clean bill of health I'll send her off planet before they get here."
"But then they'll know we sent her, the SGC"
This time Hammond cut her off "They don't know about the Stargate yet. We have to keep it that way Major. Go to the infirmary and get Andy I'll send for the rest of SG-1"
"Sir." Hammond left her lab, leaving her to fetch Andy. She looked down at the picture again. "I'll get her away safely I promise you that Mark." She put it down and walked towards the infirmary. She never even got there; she was waiting for the elevator when she ran into a rather upset looking Janet and a rather nervous looking Andy. "Janet Andy? I was just coming to get you."
"We need to see the General right away."
"Why? What's going on?" Janet refused to meet her eyes "Janet?"
"It's better to explain when we see the General."
Sam turned to Andy "Andy?"
She shrugged her shoulder "I dunno she hasn't told me a thing."
"Alright Janet Andy let's go."
By the time the three of them had reached the room the General had already gather O'Neill, Dr. Jackson and Teal'c.
"Dr. Frasier?"
"Sirs when I was running tests on Andromeda I ran into some rather unusual things I ran some more follow up tests just to make sure." By this time everyone had been seated except the doctor as she called the results up on the screen. " This" She pointed at one of the images "Is a normal human brain and this" she pointed at the second "is Andromeda's. As you can see she is using over 55% of her brain. And this one" She pointed at yet another image "was taken last night it shows her using over 70%. Along with a high concentration of an unknown substance."
"What does that mean Dr. Frasier?" Hammond asked
"It means Sir that she is using more and more of her brain which means that these abilities will keep increasing, and as for what if anything that substance is doing I'm not sure."
"Is there any danger to Andy?" Sam asked glancing to her right, to Andy.
"Major I think that there is more important things like the danger to this command."
O'Neill looked up "Sir?"
"Our informants have told us that Andromeda Carters presence has been leaked out and that people who have no knowledge of the Stargate are heading towards this base as we speak and the last thing we need is an outbreak of some unknown origin."
"Sir the Asguard would never intentionally hurt anyone I don't think there is any danger to this base, but there is to Andy" General Hammond stopped Carter from continuing what would be a long-winded speech.
"Major!" Hammond placed his hands upon the wood table. "Now the team they sent to get her has no knowledge of the Stargate and we are going to keep it that way they will have limited access to the base, but Miss Carter here is the problem. We need to get her off the base and that is not an option now. Her father has stated that if she is captured he will speak of the SGC and without knowing if he is dead or alive" Andy hung her head and became very interested in the floor under the table. "I cannot risk that. So Dr. if you will give your permission I will send Andromeda Carter along with SG- 1 off planet."
"I can't any reason to keep her here sir."
"Good it's settled then."
"Ah Sir." O'Neill put his finger in the air calling attention to himself "How did Mark find out about the Stargate in the first place?"
Hammond and everyone turned to look at Sam. She sighed she didn't want to go into this now but it looked like she was running out of options "He knew because I knew."
"What?" O'Neill looked at Sam with that 'in plain English and as few words as possible' look. "Well sir like Andy here my brother also posses certain talents"
"Such as?" Jack pushed.
"Well he could move objects and read minds."
Jack looked at Andy "Have you been ah reading our minds since you got here?" Everyone now looked at Andy. Her head shot up as Jack spoke those words to her.
"No!" She said rather harshly, being rather defensive. Everyone was rather taken aback, she rarely said much and when she did it was always quite. She soon realized how she had said it she backtracked "What I mean is I can't. My father was a telepath and telekinetic. I on the other hand am a telekinetic and posses precognitive abilities."
Jackson who had been paying with a pen tired to looked as if he knew what she was talking about. O'Neill blinked, turned to Daniel and plainly said, "Do not pretend you understood that."
"Well I did get understand some of it." He replied letting the pen drop onto the table with a dull thud.
O'Neill just shook his head. Leaned over and his head in his hand.
"Ah.what I mean is that my father could move things with his mind and read peoples mind. I can move things and give you one or two possible versions of a future, how it turns out of course is completely up to everyone else. I have no mind reading abilities what so ever."
"Thank you." He sat up
"Alright people we need a safe off world planet ASAP."
"What about the land of the light?" Teal'c asked
"Well that would be a safe place to keep her until they team leaves." Carter agreed
"Alright then SG-1 you have a go. Dr. Frasier I would like you to accompany them just in case something happens to miss Carter."
Dr. Frasier nodded "sir."
"You leave in 1 hour dismissed." O'Neill, Frasier, and Carter all stood up as the general left.
Andy spoke up after the general left "Is it safe?"
Everyone looked at her confused "Is what safe?" inquired Jack.
"Going off planet? Me going with you?"
Sam spoke up "Of course it is. Why do you even need to ask?"
"Well." Andy looked out the window at the Stargate, the source of all her problems. "I know I brought this on you.I could.I could leave."
"No." The voice was not raised but quiet and firm that left no room for objection. Everyone looked at Jack O'Neill.
O'Neill had been listening to Andy. She reminded him of his son that he had lost Charlie. It was not like him and Charlie of course; it was between aunt and niece. Carter and her niece were close and family, and Andy was about to leave most likely to death if she ran or didn't do as the government bade her. No, in the short time that he had known her they had become friends despite the age gap. "No" was all he found himself saying it was only when the others started to look at him one by one that he realized he had spoken aloud and needed to continue. "You can't go there is more at stake than the SGC."
"I'm only one person Col." She looked back down at the floor.
"One person that we won't let the government take. And it's O'Neill or Jack. "
"O'Neill is right Andy Carter. If you should be taken prisoner then the SGC and the Asguard would be compromised. And we know nothing of how your health is going to progress."
"See." Jack said.
"Listen" Sam sat down and turned to Andy "I promised my brother that I would look after you, and I will but not only for that promise but because you're my niece and I love you. Please come with us."
"Do I have a choice?"
"Not really." O'Neill said. Everyone turned to him with the 'your not helping' look. "What?" He asked with feigned innocence.
"Alright."
"Good. Now lets go find you something that you can wear off planet." They all stood up and before Andy left she looked once again out the window down at the gate room and the Stargate. /I'm leaving earth.I'm leaving dad.dad.please be safe while I'm gone.I'll come back for you I promise. /
I'm so sorry this is a short chapter! I'll try to update more often, but now that I've found a job I have to go to it.I'll do my best though that's a promise. Please Review and tell me what you think, how I can improve, if there's a certain way you want the story to go or if ya wanna see any romance between any characters. Anything and everything is helpful to me. ~Avalon